"You sound totally old-fashioned," Tally giggles. The Rusties were obsessed with putting brand names on every kind of food, so they wouldn't forget about the corporations that ruled them. "Sure, I'll have cherry cola." She watches Gideon pull out the antique plastic bottles.

"Pissed off is putting it lightly," she says, after a moment. "Every time she got mad, it was like being lit on fire."